Desc: Hans: het leven voor de dood: Directed by Louis van Gasteren. With Marlies van Alcmaer, Jan Cremer, Robert Jasper Grootveld, Willem Nijholt. About the harrowing life of the musician, poet and actor Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963), who ended his life at the age of 24. Simultaneously, the film offers a poignant portrait of his contemporaries in the turbulent fifties and sixties.